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Early History of the Middle East

Series The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 1, Part 2

Authors I. E. S. Edwards F.B.A., C. J. Gadd F.B.A and N. G. L. Hammond F.B.A.

Publication Date 1971

Hardback ISBN-10 0521077915

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521077910

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521077910

Overview

Part 2 of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam. The history of the region is traced from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods up to the rise of Hammurabi, the most significant developments being the invention of writing in the Uruk period, the emergence of the Semites as a political factor under Sargon, and the success of the centralized bureaucracy under the Third Dynasty of Ur.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see Early History of the Middle East in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 1, part 2: Early History of the Middle East

Frontmatter

The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt

The Last Predynastic Period in Babylonia

The Cities of Babylonia

The Old Kingdom in Egypt and the Beginning of the First Intermediate Period

Palestine in the Early Bronze Age

The Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia

Syria Before 2200 B.C.

Anatolia, c. 4000–2300 b.c.

The Dynasty of Agade and the Gutian Invasion

The Middle Kingdom in Egypt

Syria and Palestine c. 2160–1780 b.c.

Babylonia, c. 2120–1800 b.c.

Persia, c. 2400–1800 B.C.

Anatolia, c. 2300–1750 B.C.

Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Period

Assyria, c. 2600–1816 B.C.

Greece, Crete, and the Aegean Islands in the Early Bronze Age

Cyprus in The Early Bronze Age

Immigrants from The North

Bibliography

Chronological Tables

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